Biden: Trump was 'born with a silver spoon in his mouth' that he's now 'choking on'

Vice President Joe Biden isn't letting up his criticism of Donald
Trump's outreach to working-class voters.

In a speech in Warren, Ohio, on Thursday, Biden
mocked Trump's attempts to argue against raising the minimum
wage, noting that the real-estate magnate's patrician upbringing
allowed him to receive a million-dollar loan from his father to
start a business.

"This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth that he's
choking on because now his foot's in his mouth along with the
spoon," Biden said.

Touting his work bailing out the auto industry in front
of the union-heavy crowd, Biden argued that wealthy
Republicans like Trump would not have supported the bailout
because they do not truly understand the financial
concerns of autoworkers and union workers.

"He doesn't understand this any more than you understand what
it's like to live in a 30,000-square-foot penthouse 80 floors up
in New York. You don't understand that, I don't understand,"
Biden said.

"What was the mainstream center-right press saying?" Biden
said of the bailout. "We could never build more than 6 million
cars in America. Mainly because you weren't competent. You'd lost
your desire to work hard. You'd gotten fat and happy. That was
the whole story. That's still Trump's story."

While the government-assisted auto recovery is still a
potent memory for many workers in Ohio whose jobs are intertwined
with the success of the industry, Trump has waffled on whether
supporting the bailout was a smart idea. In 2008, the real-estate
magnate said that he was behind it "100%,"
but at a rally in Michigan last year, he said that he was
ambivalent.

"You could have let it go, and rebuilt itself, through the
free enterprise system,"
Trump said. "You could have let it go bankrupt, frankly, and
rebuilt itself, and a lot of people felt it should happen. Or you
could have done it the way it went. I could have done it either
way. Either way would have been acceptable. I think you would
have wound up in the same place."